New Pirate Bay Amazon Plugin for Firefox

There’s a new plugin for firefox on the market. And it’s a bit of a bad apple. It’s purpose is to take the product that you are looking at on Amazon and giving you the link to the torrent to download the file off of Pirate Bay. Useful? Perhaps for you pirates out there.

When the add-on is installed, it integrates a new “download 4 free” button into the Amazon product page when the same article is also available via The Pirate Bay. It works for CDs, DVDs, games, books and basically all products that can be converted to a digital format.

So, when you go searching for the new Guns and Roses album, you see a link to the download for that album on Pirate Bay for free. Despite the moral implications to pirating these things rather than paying for them, it is an interesting usage of technology. In fact, if you wanted to, you could think of it as a comparison shopping engine where the site being compared always loses to the site being compared to.

Also, if you follow the link above and then through to the site where the plugin is supposed to be, it isn’t anymore. Whether it was taken down by traffic or through other reasons is unclear. A 403 is all that’s left at the moment.